Inspirado

Rankenphile

I just watched that documentary on Netflix about the dude who plays Elmo and how he achieved all these awesome life goals like working with Jim Henson and working on Sesame Street by being super motivated and doing what he loved the most, and it was kind of awesome and moving but it hella reminded me that I'll never get to meet some people like Jim Henson who was a huge inspiration in my life.

It made me think, though, about inspiration and drive and motivation and passion, and how they can be such enormous transformative forces in a persons life. Like right now I'm like five weeks away from finishing school, which I never thought I'd do, and I'm getting to do shit I love the most in the whole world and how danged awesome that is, and what an amazing motivator it is to find something you love and just do it until you're good at it.

What inspires you guys? What do you dudes love so much you just gotta do it? What do you wanna do that you don't think you'll ever get to? What drives you?

Rankenphile

Me? Mostly it's boner fashion and merkin grooming, but it's one of those things that you really gotta love or else it's just another job, you know?

Rankenphile

And yet here I am, nearly a dong cosmetologist.

Who would have thought?

godmode

The HBO series "Generation Kill", "Band of Brothers", the documentaris "Restrepo", and "Making Marines".

The military was the only thing in my life I was really inspired to do. The rest is just kind of things I do incidentally.

Romanian My Escutcheon

Motivation? What's that?

Tossrock

rank I need some fashion tips for my boner

what's the word on tiny hats

Kochikens

I wanna own a red panda.

Don't think it'll ever be feasible.

Lost Salient

Tiny boner hats are out in favor of tiny boner cravats this season, I heard.

But don't ask me, I'm not the wang pro.

Tossrock

Unlikely things I want to do: go to Mars, create strong AI

gotta aim high though, right

Rankenphile

Tossrock wrote: »

rank I need some fashion tips for my boner

what's the word on tiny hats

Tiny hats are out this season, mostly. It depends on context, but for the most part they're seen as trite and cliche.

I've got a great line of tiny tweed suits for your nutsack that would look positively divine, however. Coupled with the right accessories, like a miniature pocket watch and a little pipe for your pecker and you'll be the talk of the town!

Indie Winter

I am inspired by my desire to live up to what I think my dad wanted me to be, and maybe not be a failing, half functioning human being

so far I think I'm successful? can never be too sure though

Indie Winter

not the best reasons out there but there they are

Gatsby

Rankenphile wrote: »

Tossrock wrote: »

rank I need some fashion tips for my boner

what's the word on tiny hats

Tiny hats are out this season, mostly. It depends on context, but for the most part they're seen as trite and cliche.

I've got a great line of tiny tweed suits for your nutsack that would look positively divine, however. Coupled with the right accessories, like a miniature pocket watch and a little pipe for your pecker and you'll be the talk of the town!

Question then Rank, should I use a regular bow tie to wrap around my boner or should I go another route and have tailor-made a tiny bow tie that is proportionate to the size of my boner?

Rankenphile

Gatsby wrote: »

Rankenphile wrote: »

Tossrock wrote: »

rank I need some fashion tips for my boner

what's the word on tiny hats

Tiny hats are out this season, mostly. It depends on context, but for the most part they're seen as trite and cliche.

I've got a great line of tiny tweed suits for your nutsack that would look positively divine, however. Coupled with the right accessories, like a miniature pocket watch and a little pipe for your pecker and you'll be the talk of the town!

Question then Rank, should I use a regular bow tie to wrap around my boner or should I go another route and have tailor-made a tiny bow tie that is proportionate to the size of my boner?

Is your dick Orville Reddenbacher? Fuck the bow tie, get you a nice mini neck tie to dangle from the base. This ain't junior prom here.

Lost Salient

But in all honesty, things that inspire me?

Um, I like to read about natural sciences. The world is such an incredibly intricate and yet massively, incomprehensively vast place, and I think that's... you know, totally fantastic. We spend a lot of our time just moving through places without really noticing them for all of their separate but intertwined parts. Or at least I do.

I'm also really inspired by all the friends I have who have done incredibly adventurous things. A couple I know spent the last year backpacking Southeast Asia, and another couple I know just got back from hiking South/Southwestern China and Pakistan for ten months. I have a friend who hitchhiked through Senegal over the past spring. All of these people are way cooler than me but the fact that they are willing to hang out with me makes me feel like maybe someday I can do these amazing, adventurous things, too? And so that's pretty inspiring. Or at least motivating.

Indie Winter

also I guess I want to have an apartment in a highrise with a view of the ocean

Blake T

Wait are we talking about our dicks of our goals.

Because my dick and my goals are two different things.

Blake T

I want to be a vajazzler to the the stars.

Lost Salient

I want to have all the money in the world and stick it in my ears and go "PBBBTTTT"

Indie Winter

in secluded corporate retreats CEOs watch diagramas of Blake's dick

"how to we get to that point", they ask one another

and the older ones, the ones who know better, they just shake their heads, a single tear rolling from their eyes

Blake T

If won lotto or something, or I don't know, worked hard and saved. (you know, shit that would never happen) I'd like to work with kids, maybe through a school or an outreach program and taken outside, doing camping and activities and shit.

Until I start to hate kids.

Oh and live next to a cliff.

Rankenphile

Ok outside of cock fashion, my real drive and motivation, to actually make games? Man, it is the best fucking feeling, getting to actually do that shit. I still need to graduate and get a job, and that's a little scary and all, but right now I'm still so hyper focused on getting my teams game done enough to demo next week for our career fair thing and it is getting so close and looking so good and the team is delivering so well, it is easy to feel confident and excited.

Plus I've just had so many awesome other opportunities and gotten to network and meet so many amazing folks. I dunno, it's easy to get all gushy and shit, but I really love this stuff so much. I'm super excited to get the demo together and release it for people to play it soon.

George Fornby Grill

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BwOXlGbW6Q is all I can think of

Rankenphile

Teaching is super rad Blake. You should do it.

Gatsby

Pretty sure we've discussed the topic of Blake's penis plenty already.

Indie Winter

every thread is Blake's Penis thread

most just never live up to their potential

Blake T

But rank, I also like money.

I get to teach graduates as well with my job which is interesting.

Buttlord

i really want to do something that pertains to my love of comics and shit

but

no market in that

my life will be boring

Blake T

Indie Winter wrote: »

every thread is Blake's Penis thread

most just never live up to their potential

I've had women tell me the same thing.

Buttlord

for a while i was thinking about going to school for a phd in like

probably literature

and somehow parlaying that into a focus on the american comic book and shit

but

nah

Rankenphile

If you instantly restrict yourself from doing what you like best because "there's no market for it", you are dooming yourself to a pretty shitty sort of existence. If you do your best work in pursuit of something you love, money will find you along the way and you'll be a lot happier in the process. Doing anything just for money without further satisfaction is an unfortunate living.

You don't even need to do what you love full time. You can work a job and get by and make time for your creative endeavors outside of your financial responsibilities, if you are fortunate or motivated enough. This is of course assuming you are in a situation where this is feasible, like you don't have five kids to feed and live in a severely improvised area here you need to work three jobs to get by or something.

Rankenphile

Ok I'm rambling and sleep deprived and being an idealist. Probably not wise. I'm going to sleep.

Blake T

I honestly believe too many people try too hard, and then judge themselves on failing when they try and find a job they love. You aren't just your job, and if you can go home and do your own thing when you get home that's still a pretty sweet time.

And besides, doing a job you don't like might give you the tools to do all the things you do love outside of work.

Quoth

I think a lot of my inspiration comes from watching other people do something badly, and I think, hey, I can do better than that

I try to fix things, you know

Buttlord

Blake T wrote: »

I honestly believe too many people try too hard, and then judge themselves on failing when they try and find a job they love. You aren't just your job, and if you can go home and do your own thing when you get home that's still a pretty sweet time.

And besides, doing a job you don't like might give you the tools to do all the things you do love outside of work.

This is the conclusion I've come to

I'm OK with it

As long as I can do the things I love on some capacity I'm happy

Calamity Jane

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2Q7YRDL90E&feature=player_embedded

Rankenphile

That's exactly right.

A job is a job. It won't make you happy. It should provide you with the means to pursue the things that provide you with happiness. If you can be creatively fulfilled in your work or enjoy what you do, even better, and that's always the ideal, but I think too many people expect to get a job that will make them happy forever and forget that it's still always going to be work.

Tossrock

what about being a fluffer

you could hardly call that "work"

Lost Salient

Yeah, I think if your work is something you love, you're very lucky indeed, but it's too easy to expect that just because you love it, it won't really be work. Which isn't the case.

And also there's nothing wrong with working a job that's just a job, as long as somewhere in there you are doing what you love. If your work is just a paycheck facilitating that thing that truly fulfills you, that's okay too.

Blake T

I mean buttlord, if you wanted to you could make website with critical analysis and stuff on superheroes.

Speaking of dreams and stuff I need to plan my trip to 'merica.

Buttlord

Blake T wrote: »

I mean buttlord, if you wanted to you could make website with critical analysis and stuff on superheroes.

Speaking of dreams and stuff I need to plan my trip to 'merica.

Hey yeah this is true

O could do this